Navigate Upper – Intermediate Grammar slide 139, ex-es 1, 2 Past events

slide 139, ex. 1

  1. As Eva walked through the square, she saw an old friend who she hadn’t seen for years.
  2. We had been at the airport for over two hours before they told us that the flight was cancelled.
  3. I fell asleep while I was watching TV last night. We were watching a really boring film.
  4. Dr Brown walked out of the station when he realized that he had left one of his bags on the train.
  5. Laurent had lived in three different countries by the time he was five years old.
  6. The accident happened because the driver was looking at his mobile when the car in front of him suddenly stopped and he wasn’t able to brake in time.

ex. 2

In 2010, a British adventurer became the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon after a 6,000-mile trek. When he finally reached the finish, he had been walking for nearly two-and-a-half years.

Ex-army officer Ed Stafford, 34, arrived at the finishing point, the mouth of the river in Brazil, 859 days after he had set off from its source in Peru. He began the epic journey with walking partner Luke Collyer, 37, an outdoor activities instructor. But three months after they had set off on their journey, the pair fell out after an argument and Collyer returned to the UK.

Along the way Stafford encountered poisonous snakes, scorpions, electric eels and piranhas. But Stafford’s scariest moment was at the hands of local tribesmen. One day, Stafford approached a small village when five or six locals suddenly started running towards him with machetes, guns, and bows and arrows. The tribesmen captured Stafford, but they allowed him to leave soon after. By the end of the trip, Stafford had endured hundreds of wasp stings and suffered an estimated 50,000 mosquito bites.